Terence > Terence's Quotes

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. There are so many different forms of dialogue: between several people, between two people, internal dialogue and dialogue through letters. All tensions are created and resolved through dialogue. Austen's ability to create such multivocality, such diverse voices and intonations in relation and in confrontation within a cohesive structure, is one of the best examples of the democratic aspect of the novel. In Austen's novels, there are spaces for oppositions that do not need to eliminate each other in order to exist. There is also space - not just space but a necessity - for self-reflection and self-criticism. Such reflection is the cause of change. We needed no message, no outright call for plurality, to prove our point. All we needed was to reach and appreciate the cacophony of voices to understand its democratic imperative. There was where Austen's danger lay.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“every sailor needs someone to return to, that every woman needs someone to wait for.”
― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October

“Goodbye -- Because I love you.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were also the first humans to leave behind strong evidence of burying their dead and caring for their sick.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.”
― Roald Dahl

“The man took another long look at the dogs. "When they start chewing on things, try to steer them over to that chair, would you?" He jerked his thumb at an overstuffed armchair in the corner. It was upholstered in orange and brown. Images of ducks were involved in the pattern. "I hate that chair," he said. Edgar looked at him, trying to decide if he was making a joke.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“was born on your birthday!” “Yup,” said Eloise. “March 13.”
― Jane Smiley, Some Luck

“I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

“Who had Mama been, what had she wanted to be or do before I was born? Once I was born, her hopes had turned, and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina